"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jeanine Herbst.
President Trump continues to press allies to join U.S. efforts to secure the state of
“Hormuz, that's the passage off the coast of Iran that helps transport oil throughout”
the world. But as NPR's deep-a-shiver on reports, so far, no other countries have publicly committed to helping." Trump says, "Numerous countries have told him they're on the way to help the U.S. police the state of Hormuz, but he didn't specify which countries, despite the president insisting
that U.S. attacks on Iran have been successful so far, the streets still poses a concern." "Literally, a single terrorist can put something in the water or shoot something or shoot a missile, a small missile, and it's fairly close to range because it is a tight area,
which is one of the reasons they've always used that as a weapon."
Iran's ability to threaten slow-moving oil tankers in the state has become a headache for the Trump administration. 20% of the world's oil supply relies on the passage and prices have increased since the war began.
“Deep-a-shiver on NPR News, the White House.”
"A line of powerful storms is moving across the eastern half of the U.S. potentially spawning tornadoes, and a major snowstorm hit the upper Midwest over the weekend. Pears Rebecca Hirscher reports that severe weather is drawing attention to the federal government's hobbled emergency agency." The federal emergency management agency is supposed to help respond to weather disasters,
including assisting with search and rescue operations and debris removal. But the agency is struggling to get disaster assistance money out the door, with millions of dollars in promised disaster funding delayed. That includes large grants that local governments rely on to pay emergency officials and
local first responders, and FEMA has lost thousands of workers since the Trump administration
began, including nearly 500 in January alone. FEMA did not respond to questions about its readiness to respond to the latest storms. Rebecca Hirscher and PR News."
“An Afghan man who served alongside U.S. forces has died in ICE custody.”
And Pears Quilorn's reports he was in the U.S. legally with a pending asylum claim. Muhammad Nazir Paktiowall served alongside American special forces in Afghanistan, according to documents seen by NPR. He helped U.S. troops for over a decade. In 2021, Paktiowall fled Afghanistan with his family, because the Taliban were threatening
to kill Afghans who had collaborated with the U.S. Since then, Paktiowall had been living in Texas with his wife and six children. A family statement says last Friday, he was taking his kids to school when federal agents in unmarked cars surrounded Paktiowall and drove him away. He complained of breathing problems and was given medical attention, according to a statement
from ICE, but the next morning he was pronounced dead in a Dallas hospital. ICE says the cause of death is under investigation. Quilorn sent PR news. "You're listening to NPR news from Washington.
Today marks 100 years since the launch of the world's first modern rocket from a snowy
field in Massachusetts. The launch set the stage for space exploration as we know it." Massachusetts scientists Robert got her figured out that in order to reach space, a rocket would need liquid fuel, like gasoline mixed with oxygen. And even though his first liquid fuel rocket a century ago only rose a couple dozen feet,
liquid fuel would go on to become the main propellant for rocket ships. Mori lesson is a space scientist who formally led NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The space they started a century ago with Robert Goddard, who would have even imagined we launched a rocket every 28 hours last year. We the world, and that's because of Robert Goddard.
The rocket scientists' work was so meaningful that when Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon in his pocket was Goddard's autobiography. From PR news, I'm Sam Turkin in Auburn, Massachusetts. In cyclopedia Britannica and its marium Webster subsidiary are suing open AI for allegedly misusing their reference materials to train its AI models.
Britannica says open AI copied nearly 100,000 of its articles to train GPT large language models and that chat GPT produces near verbatim copies of Britannica's encyclopedia entries dictionary definitions and also other content. Last year Britannica filed a similar lawsuit against AI startup perplexity AI that is still going on.
I'm Jeanine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News in Washington. "One to understand the reason and the meanings of the narratives that led us here and maybe had to head them off at the past, that's on the media specialty. I'm Brook Gladstone host of WNYC's On the Media, listen wherever you get your podcasts.
